Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildup that, put 5,000 Marines, 1,700 Army paratroops, 70 Navy warships, 270 carrier-based Navy aircraft and 150 Air Force land-based aircraft into the Middle East within 72 hours began just before 2 o'clock one morning last week. Red-alert telephones jangled at the bedsides of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps...
...Buildup. Castro has still not gained enough popular support to bounce Batista, but Reporter Mallin saw surprising military strength in the mountains. Ammunition, once scarce, is now plentiful enough to be wasted on potshots at coconuts. The armed, uniformed men in the Sierra del Cristal (where Raúl Castro holds out) and the neighboring Sierra Maestra (Fidel Castro's headquarters) total at least 2,000. The rebels have a pool of stolen trucks and jeeps, operate an airstrip into which arms are flown from some mysterious supplier...
...buildup is likely to be slow and cautious. For some time businessmen have tended toward lower inventories because heavy inventories are expensive and improved transportation and increased industrial capacity have made materials easy to get. Many retail stores are ordering smaller quantities more often, getting by with a 30-day or 60-day supply instead of the 90-day supply they might have carried a few years ago. Manufacturers are doing the same. Steel customers are buying more of their steel from warehouses instead of directly from the mills, even though prices are as much as 30% higher, because...
...choose to call "occupation costs." Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, an open foe of support payments, has even implied that if his government does agree to any payments, he will cancel large chunks of his ministry's several hundred million-dollar U.S.-arms contracts. Though his domestic arms buildup is going so slowly that he seems unlikely to spend the $2.5 billion allotted him this year, Strauss announced last week that he was cutting back from 700 to 400 the number of M48 tanks ordered in the U.S. because of the increased burden on his budget of the troop...
...stardom by Hollywood standards. Her father was killed in a gambling scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...